More: Thoughts to Ponder

A young man who had been a scapegoat and caused his parents a great deal of sorrow received a message that his father had died. After the funeral the will was opened. The first seven or eight paragraphs were a diatribe against the sins of this errant boy. He jumped up and stormed, "I won't listen to this any longer," --- and left. His family finally located him and said, "Come back, you heard only half of the will. The last half reads that you should be allowed a $15,000 legacy for the rest of your life if you accept it."
"The wages of sin is death." That is only half of the story. "The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." That is a great legacy! Come back my brother, come home. There is a fortune for your inheritance for the rest of your life here and hereafter. We have tried everything in this country and everything has failed except the Gospel. It is God's great remedy for our ills.
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.I heard an Indiana minister say that it was his experience to have occasional visits with a Congregational pastor whose sermons of "modernistic" trend were published in the papers every week and were doing a great deal of damage. That modernistic preacher lost his wife in death and he said to this preacher, "I have heard you and I have watched you and I want to say that while the things I have preached may do for a little while, I have just come through and experience I never dreamed could be so black, and I am coming home. I want to come home and rest my case on the substantial Gospel which you believe." He went back to his pulpit the next Sunday and said. "Friends, you
know what I have preached in the past. Now I am going to preach an old-fashioned gospel sermon and if you don't want to hear it you are at liberty to go."
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.God pity the parson (preacher) who believes that it is sound commercial policy to say he will "hear no evil, see no evil, and speak about no evil" from the pulpit.
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.There are too many people in the church today who want to bribe their consciences. A tight-fisted old miser was approached one time by a man interested in a benevolent agency and asked to give a sum. He would not do it. Finally this fellow hit upon a new technique, He said "You surely would not want to see thousands of men and women and children literally starving in this city, would you?" And the man said, "No, I would not, and here is my check for $500 if you will get them out of my sight." God's people have become ostrich-minded; head-hiding in the sands of indifference and refusing to look upon the
perils of impending doom!
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.A Chicago daily, a number of years ago carried the story of little Benny Hawkins, who was playing when a big dog pounced on him. Soon hydrophobia developed and as he languished there upon his white bed, little Benny said to his father, "Daddy, I am going to die. Pray Jesus to take care of little Benny." Oh, Jesus will take care of Benny over there all right, but He has made us guardians of all the little Bennies, their sisters, brothers, mothers and daddies, down here, and it is our responsibility to try to see to it that Benny gets to Jesus!
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.A helpless old lady used to be asked, "Don't you feel "blue" in your invalidism?" She would answer, "I used to on dark cloudy days. One day my eye chanced upon a Text in Acts 1:9, "While they beheld He was taken up and a cloud received Him out of their sight." I'm not depressed anymore. I know my Lord is just a cloud's distance away!"
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(The above morsels are from the great book, Gospel Trail Blazers by Morris Butler Book. I pray they touch your heart and give you a bit of wisdom and knowledge to help you in your walk in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a dying world.)